Beau Trahan - Football Coach

Beau Trahan

Title:
Quarterbacks Coach
Email:
beau-trahan@utulsa.edu
Phone:
918.631.2393

SEVENTH YEAR

Beau Trahan enters his seventh season as a member of The University of Tulsa football coaching staff, joining the Golden Hurricane in January 2016. He serves as Co-Passing Game Coordinator, a position he was promoted to in July 2021, while also coaching the Tulsa quarterbacks.

Two of his protoges rank among the school’s career top-10 passers. Dane Evans is Tulsa’s all-time leader with 11,680 yards and Zach Smith with 5,226 yards in just two seasons is eighth on the school’s career passing chart.

In 2016, Evans became the school’s career leader for passing yards, completions, attempts, 300-yard passing games, total offense and TD passes. Evans threw for 3,348 yards and 32 touchdowns during the 2016 season under Trahan’s tutelage, thus helping the Hurricane post a 10-3 record and win the Miami Beach Bowl that year. It was also an offense that set an NCAA record by becoming the first FBS/DI school to have a 3,000-yard passer, two 1,000-yard rushers and two 1,000-yard receivers in the same season.

Trahan tutored freshman quarterback starters in two consecutive seasons, 2017 and 2018. In the 2018 campaign, redshirt freshman Seth Boomer showed steady progress by completing 61.2-percent of his passes for 945 yards, seven TDs and two interceptions in Tulsa’s final five games.

In 2019, junior Zach Smith threw for 3,279 yards and 19 touchdowns with a 131.9 pass efficiency rating after sitting out a transfer year in 2018. Smith averaged 216.3 yards per game with 13 TDs in the 2020 shortened nine-game season.

Last year, the Hurricane offense ranked second in the American Athletic Conference and 28^th in the nation for total offense with 443.5 yards per game, while ranking 34^th nationally in rushing and 53^rd for passing.

Before coming to Tulsa, Trahan spent eight years at Baylor University. He spent his final two seasons as the Bears’ assistant athletic director in charge of high school relations and coordinator of recruiting for football. Before that, Trahan served as Baylor’s director of football operations for three seasons and previously was the director of high school relations for three years.

A four-year letterman at the University of Texas (1999-2002), Trahan began his collegiate playing career as a quarterback and then moved to safety. He returned to the quarterback position in 2001 and 2002. Trahan served as a team captain during his senior season of 2002.

Following his playing career, Trahan launched his collegiate coaching career in 2003 as a graduate assistant on the defensive side of the ball at Texas. He assisted with coaching the defensive backs and special teams. From UT, Trahan joined the coaching staff at the University of Houston in 2004 as an offensive graduate assistant coach, coaching under Philip Montgomery. He coached tight ends for the Cougars and assisted with coaching the special teams.

From 2005-08, Trahan was an assistant coach at Dickinson (Texas) High School, where he coached the quarterbacks and served as co-offensive coordinator under his father, legendary Warren “Bull” Trahan.

Trahan received his bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from the University of Texas in 2002. He and his wife, Lauren, have two daughters: Abigail and Anne.

Alma Mater: Texas ‘02
Hometown: Bay City, Texas
Playing Experience: Lettered four seasons at the University of Texas (1999-2002), where he started as a quarterback and played safety and special teams

Bowl Games as a Player
1998       Cotton Bowl (Texas)
1999       Cotton Bowl (Texas)
2000       Holiday Bowl (Texas)
2001       Holiday Bowl (Texas)
2002       Cotton Bowl (Texas)

Bowl Games as a Coach
2010       Texas Bowl (Baylor)
2011       Alamo Bowl (Baylor)
2012       Holiday Bowl (Baylor)
2013       Fiesta Bowl (Baylor)
2014       Cotton Bowl (Baylor)
2015       Russell Athletic Bowl (Baylor)
2016 Miami Beach Bowl (Tulsa)
2020 Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl (Tulsa)
2021 Myrtle Beach Bowl (Tulsa)